Dr. Julia Gurol-Haller

This special issue is an invitation to combine critical approaches to the study of authoritarian power by paying attention to spaces of contestation, authoritarian practices, as well as non-state actors and agency below and beyond the scale of the state.

Amidst current geopolitical tensions, the global regulation of AI has become an instrument of global power ambitions. This article traces the respective ambitions on the global governance of AI technologies by China, the US and the EU.

This article deconstructs Sino-Emirati relations in the field of digital surveillance. Inspired by Social Network Theory, we explore three transregional public-private elite networks as multipliers for the traveling of authoritarian practices.

This contribution explores how the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its promise of ‘connectivity’ is contributing to the political re-imagination, contestation, and reconfiguration of nature-society relations and development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).